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English Language Enhancement: Vocabulary and Grammar

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Essential English Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary

  • Script: guió
  • Access - accessible
  • Anxiety - anxious
  • Romance - romantic
  • Succeed – Succession
  • Choose – choice
  • Entertain – entertainment
  • Grow – growth
  • Live – life
  • Produce – production
  • Separate – separation
  • Supply –

Phrasal Verbs

  • Get through à fer-se entendre, connectar (to get through à to make oneself understood, to connect)
  • Get round à voltejar, molestar en fer algo (to get around à to circumvent, to bother while doing something)
  • Get over à superar (to get over à to overcome)
  • Get down à deprimir, cansar (to get down à to depress, to tire)
  • Get away à sortir-se’n (to get away à to get away with it)
  • Get into à interesar-se, ficar-se en algo (to get into à to become interested, to get
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Synonyms and Antonyms: Vocabulary Builder

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Synonyms and Antonyms: Enhance Your Vocabulary

Common Expressions and Feelings

  • Ready: In place
  • Resemble: Take after
  • Move from childhood to adulthood: Grow up
  • Prove to be the case: Turn out
  • Really depressed: Down in the dumps
  • Really happy: Over the moon
  • Became really angry: Fly off the handle
  • An annoying person or thing: Pain in the neck
  • A very kind personality: Heart of gold
  • Run a gentle pace: Jog
  • Extremely unhappy: Heartbroken
  • Extremely thin: Skinny
  • Slightly hungry: Peckish
  • Overweight: Obese
  • Look at something quickly: Glance
  • Grumpy: Bad-tempered
  • Bullying: Hurting
  • Grim: Worrying
  • Tempting: Appealing
  • Big, not long: Large
  • Recommend: Advise
  • In the end: Eventually
  • Place where waste is taken and left: Rubbish dump
  • Help someone to remember something: Remind
  • Using up a supply
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5 Effective Strategies for Weight Loss and Muscle Gain

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1. Lift Weights

Lifting weights is one of the best, fastest, and most effective ways to burn fat. Muscle mass is very important. Weight lifting helps you keep and expand it.

  • Your body's metabolism will have to do more work (i.e., burn more calories) in order to sustain your muscle, even if you're just sitting down watching TV!
  • You get a nice after-workout extra calorie burn for up to 38 hours.
  • You're going to look amazing underneath your fat tissue, so once it's gone, you'll look toned and great, not soft and skinny!
  • It is recommended that you do at least 3-4 workouts a week.
    • If you are doing 3 days, go for compound exercises to maximize time!
    • If you can do 4 workouts a week, an upper body/lower body split is recommended again to make the most of
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Understanding Working Hours in Los Angeles: Regulations and Rights

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Understanding Working Hours in Los Angeles

1. Working Hours

Working hours in Los Angeles (LA) refer to the time an employee spends working, calculated on a daily, weekly, or annual basis. The maximum duration is 40 hours per week, with no more than 9 hours per day, unless there is an agreement for an uneven distribution of hours throughout the year. Rest periods must be respected. Periods devoted to movement, changing clothes, etc., are not considered actual working time. Children under 18 cannot work more than 8 hours a day, including time spent on training.

The Law on the Settlement of Personal, Family, and Labor Life states that work schedules can be adapted, subject to agreement between both parties.

1.1. Extension or Reduction of Working Hours

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Workplace Safety: Employer and Employee Responsibilities

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Work provides financial resources, fosters social connections, contributes to satisfaction, and allows for skill development.

Health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.

A working condition is any job characteristic that may significantly influence safety hazards and worker health.

Employer's Duties

General Duties:

  • Ensuring worker safety and health
  • Integrating preventive measures
  • Complying with occupational hazard prevention regulations
  • Assuming the cost of health and safety measures

Duties Regarding Workers:

  • Informing and training workers
  • Addressing serious and imminent risks
  • Regularly monitoring worker health
  • Consulting workers and allowing
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Pronoun Functions: Reflexive, Reciprocal, and Subordinate Clauses

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Pronoun Functions

  • Personal Pronoun: 3rd person, substitute for him/them. In this case, the pronoun is an indirect object. Example: Sent a gift to their grandparents / He sent it.
  • Reflexive Pronoun: Used in reflexive structures (3rd person) where the subject performs the verb action on themselves. Example: They wore makeup.
  • Pseudoreflexive Pronoun: Syntactically similar to reflexive, but semantically the subject does not perform the action. Example: John built a house.
  • Reciprocal Pronoun: Used when the action is done mutually between the components of the subject. Example: Angela and Ines gave their gifts.
  • Passive Reflexive: A mix of active and passive sentences. Example: They sell melons.
  • Impersonal Pronoun: Appears in sentences without a grammatical
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Primary Care for Seniors in Mallorca: Health & Wellness

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Primary Care Program for Seniors in Mallorca

Since 2000, primary care has been developing the Care Program for Seniors. Here is a quick review of the main points covered.

General Objective

To improve the health and quality of life of people 75 or older who live in Mallorca.

Specific Objectives

  • Increase uptake of risk assessment in homes.
  • Increase the proportion of older people with healthy lifestyles.
  • Reduce the situations that increase the risk of illness, complications, and sequelae.
  • Reduce the incidence of accidents and falls.
  • Reduce the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (tetanus, flu).
  • Reduce the number of elderly with mental or social functional disability secondary to chronic conditions.
  • Reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and readmissions.
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Family Illness: Attitudes, Stress, and Caregiver Burnout

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Continuation of Item 4:

Incorrect Attitudes Towards Family Illness

The following are incorrect attitudes when dealing with the illness of a family member:

  1. Permanently refusing to face reality, which negatively affects the patient's psychological development.
  2. Overprotecting the patient.
  3. Interrupting all recreational activities, i.e., not allowing distractions.
  4. Falling into servitude, that is, doing everything the patient says. This can lead to the patient and family resenting this behavior and engaging in recriminations.
  5. Having a passive and inept attitude, that is, not wanting to learn how to care for the sick person.
  6. Maintaining feelings of rage and anger for an extended period, which often accompanies the illness.
  7. Anticipating the mourning stage,
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Bowel Elimination, Cardiovascular, and Respiratory Physiology in the Elderly

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Bowel Elimination Physiology in the Elderly

In the elderly, stools are less frequent and may be harder. Constipation is a common complaint among healthy elderly patients, often without a clear single etiology. Aging produces:

  • Slowing of gastrointestinal motility.
  • Mucosal and intestinal muscle atrophy.
  • Reduced nerve function in the intestine, rectum, and anus.

Subjective Constipation

In the elderly, this is usually related to incorrect assessments or ideas acquired due to cognitive decline.

Manifestations

Unrealistic expectations regarding the quantity and timing of bowel movements, leading to the abuse of laxatives.

Criteria Scores

The elderly person must:

  • Recognize their bowel pattern as normal.
  • Recognize the negative effects of laxatives.
  • Specify activities
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Essential British English Vocabulary for Everyday Use

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A

  • In a good deal: Many, above all, especially abroad.
  • Accountant: The stranger.
  • Address book: Contact.
  • Afford: Allow.
  • All in all: In general.
  • Alow/Allow: Permit.
  • Annoyed: Angry.
  • Apply for: Seek.
  • Approach: Method.
  • Ardent: Fervent.
  • As long as: Provided that.
  • Assortment: Collection.
  • Avoid: Evade.

B

  • Be about to: Ready to.
  • Beat about the bush: Avoid saying something directly.
  • Beg: Plead.
  • Boarding school: Residential school.
  • Boot: Car trunk.
  • Bottom line: The main point.
  • Break a habit: Stop a habit.
  • Break someone's heart: Cause emotional pain.
  • Break the news: Inform.
  • Bursts into tears: Starts crying.
  • Business executive: Executive.

C

  • Cab: Taxi.
  • Can: Tin.
  • Candy: Sweets.
  • Chance: Occasion.
  • Charm: Attractive quality.
  • Check: Examine.
  • Cheer: Applaud.
  • Chemist's: Pharmacy.
  • Choice: Option.
  • Clap:
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